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Skip, Lydia and Captain Joshua Slocum
I have the book, and the copy I own I bought at a yard sale. It must have
been a first printing .. Yes, Joshua Slocum's trip was eventful. And not everything went as planned. But when you think of how simple his rig was, how little he had in equipment, and yet he sailed around the world! Skip has all these fancy doo dads. He is always posting about something breaking. Heck, most of the stuff he is fixing, I've never seen. It was just a thought. I'm sure Captain Slocum would have all the doo dads if he were alive today. === "Ernest Scribbler" wrote in message news "NE Sailboat" wrote I read Skip's postings. Seems he is always having some mechanical breakdown. If it isn't the self steerer, it is the auto pilot.. or something. Joshua Slocum left Boston on April 24, 1895. He sailed around the world alone. No motor, no self steering, a wooden boat. Haven't you read Joshua's postings? Breakdowns, runagrounds, williwaws, canoe borne savages. Skip's adventures are downright uneventful by comparison. |
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